Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced that the company is expanding the capacity for 28nm process chips in its plant in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province as planned. TSMC Chairman Liu Deyin revealed the news at the firm’s second quarter earnings conference call, saying that the expansion is aimed at supporting customers in the Chinese mainland.

It is reported that TSMC is expanding its US investment amid the political pressure that mass production of the 4nm process has been delayed to 2025. It was originally planned for 2024.

As one of the largest semiconductor company, TSMC Nanjing, with an initial investment of US$3 billion, announced that it has initiated mass production on October 31, 2018, and it took only two years and three months from the start of construction to mass production.

Thanks to the city’s market-oriented business environment, solid talent base and favorable innovation atmosphere, more and more high-quality enterprises choose to start production in Nanjing.